Track plan at a glance Name: The Eastern Loggers Scale: HO (1:87)- standard and 3-foot gauge Size: 10 x 15 feet (expanding to 10 x 20 feet) Theme: Pennsylvania lumber industry and railroading Period: 1915-1925, summer Style: loop, walkaround island Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: about 6 percent Originally appeared in the 1998 issue […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Timber City & Northwestern Scale: HO Originally appeared in the 1997 issue of Great Model Railroads. Click here to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Union Pacific Rochelle Subdivision Scale: N (1:160) Size: 14 x 28 feet Theme: UP freight operations in Midwest Period: present Style: point to point with through staging Mainline run: 165 feet Minimum radius: 20″ (13″ in staging) Minimum turnout: handlaid no. 6 and larger Maximum grade: 1.1 percent Originally […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Utah Colorado Western Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 28 x 33 feet Prototype: free-lance Period: 1967 Style: peninsula walkaround Minimum radii: 30″ on main line, 26″ on branch line Maximum grade: 1.5 percent Originally appeared in the May 1999 issue of Model Railroader. Click this link to download a PDF […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Walla Walla Valley Ry. Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 10 x 11 feet Prototype: Walla Walla Valley Ry. Period: 1968 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 24 feet Minimum radius: 15″ Minimum turnout: Peco medium radius Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in the 2005 issue of Great Model Railroads. Click here […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Waynesburg & Washington RR Scale: HO (1:87 standard gauge) Size: 17 x 18 feet Theme: Pennsylvania RR Period: summer 1957 Style: point to point with connection for continuous run Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: handlaid no. 6 with no. 4 in some yards Maximum grade: 2½ percent Originally appeared […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Western Route of the Boston & Maine Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 11 x 13 feet Theme: B&M with Maine Central interchange Period: late 1950s-early ’60s Style: center access with surrounding staging Mainline run: 67 feet (27 feet visible plus 40 feet in staging) Minimum radius: 31″ Minimum turnout: no. […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Wyoming Division of the Union Pacific Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 26 x 45½ feet Prototype: Union Pacific Era: 1938 to 1960 Style: around the walls with duckunder Minimum radii: main line 48″, branch line 36″ Minimum turnout: no. 8 Maximum grade: main line 1.8 percent, branch line 3.8 percent […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Zuni Mountain RR Scale: N (1:160) Size: 17′-6″ x 24′-8″ Prototypes: Zuni Mountain RR and and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Era: 1950s, steam-to-diesal transition Style: around the walls (AT&SF is a dogbone; ZMRR is loop-to-loop) Mainline run: AT&SF, 120 feet; ZMRR, 120 feet Minimum radii: 18″ on AT&SF, […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Central New England Ry. with subsidiaries: Paulsbo Transportation Co. and its narrow gauge subsidiary the Davidsons RR, and the South Marchaul & Portsmouth Ry. Scale: S (1:64) Size: 21 x 34 feet Prototypes: New England Central; New York, New Haven & Hartford; and New York Central System Era: last […]
Track plan at a glanceName: Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore LinesScale: O (1:48)Size: 12 x 30 feetPrototype: PRSL Camden-Atlantic City main linePeriod: September 21, 1955Style: walk-in with spiral aisleMinimum radius: 54″ (main line)Minimum turnout: no. 6Originally appeared in the January 1999 issue of Model Railroader.Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Waterbury Branch (New York, New Haven & Hartford RR Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 10 x 13 feet Prototype: New York, New Haven & Hartford RR Period: 1940-’50s Style: around the walls with operating pit Minimum radius: 23″ Minimum turnout: no. 5 Maximum grade: 3 percent Originally appeared in the […]
